ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVING

About the Course

The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. And no, you don’t have to be experienced to take it!

This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI instructor. The course builds on Open Water Diving skills and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and ways to have fun while scuba diving.

You will complete 5 different short courses called ‘Adventure Dives’:

1 (Mandatory) Deep diving – where you will learn to dive to max 30m/100ft accompanied by the dive instructor

3-5 Three Adventure dives of your choice (courses include , drift diving, species identification, peak performance buoyancy and more). Accompanied by the dive instructor, but also with other recreational divers who are not doing the course, however the instructor will reinforce the knowledge at the surface before entering the water.

We tend to recommend that you include Peak Performance Buoyancy and Drift Diving as two of your optional Adventure dives. These skills are particularly useful for diving comfortably in the Galapagos conditions and moving your performance quickly past the novice stage.

Itinerary

DAY 1 (30 minutes)

Participants must complete the online theory course before arriving in Galapagos

Specific Adventure dive briefing and preparation with your instructor at the beginning of the dive (later you will join the group of recreational divers for the rest of the dives. Only with the deep and navigational dives you will be assigned with a personal instructor)

Adventure dive – putting into practice your learning for that specific topic (ask our sales agents the adventure dives that are available at offer)

One hour surface interval between dives for rest, review and refreshments

Adventure dive (your final dive on Day 4 will be a Fun Dive not specific to the course)

Enjoy lunch onboard, return to dive center

Debrief the day and prepare for next Adventure dives.

Course requirements

Be a certified as Open Water Diver

Complete the PADI course and liability release form

Present a medical certificate declaring any health issues that may affect diving.

What’s Included?

An English and Spanish speaking PADI Instructor

Knowledge Development Theory also available online

Note: All divers are responsible for reading the relevant chapters of their PADI Advanced Open Water manual themselves. Instructors will reinforce learning during the dive days. There are no final exams in this course.

Practice: You will practice your 5 Adventure Dives directly in the sea on Days 2, 3 and 4. Specific dive sites will be chosen to support each part of your learning.